Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,884 5,547 7,103
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.69% 22.94% 19.22%
As % of the General category 34.35% 35.72% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,049 3,687 4,944
10th Percentile £356 £355 £360
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £592
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.83% -1.38%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 99 242
10th Percentile £14.86 £18.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.44 £15.04
Median hourly rate £28.55 £40.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.63% +45.45% +6.96%
75th Percentile £54.50 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £40.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year -25.47% +49.07% -3.50%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 22,954 15,531 21,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.42% 64.24% 57.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,048 9,997 13,605
10th Percentile £313 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £650
90th Percentile £744 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 718 1,815
10th Percentile £14.19 £13.32 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% -2.88%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.20
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £31.16 £28.00 £30.12
% change year-on-year +11.27% -7.04% -7.04%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 6 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,755 £575 -4.17% 3,156
North of England +3 1,230 £492 +5.81% 843
South East -2 651 £500 -4.31% 940
North West +5 649 £465 +3.33% 488
Midlands -1 607 £500 +6.95% 475
Yorkshire 0 538 £525 +9.95% 277
West Midlands +1 424 £500 - 299
South West -2 368 £525 - 343
East of England +2 193 £520 -9.57% 227
East Midlands 0 178 £468 +6.86% 176
North East -14 44 £488 +7.73% 86
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 282 (3.58%) Confluence
2 198 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 78 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 58 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 45 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.56%) Apache
7 26 (0.33%) SAS
8 25 (0.32%) CMS
9 19 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.19%) CICS
11 13 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 13 (0.16%) Appian
12 12 (0.15%) Camunda
12 12 (0.15%) IIS
13 10 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 10 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 8 (0.10%) HCL Notes
14 8 (0.10%) Mendix
15 7 (0.089%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 6 (0.076%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 442 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 154 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 148 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
5 106 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 49 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 33 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.063%) Trello
9 4 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.051%) Sketch
10 3 (0.038%) Notion
11 2 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.025%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.025%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.025%) InVision
11 2 (0.025%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.013%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.013%) UXPin
12 1 (0.013%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 279 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 105 (1.33%) NetSuite
3 95 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
4 83 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
5 78 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 68 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
7 45 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
8 44 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
9 40 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
10 37 (0.47%) SAP FI
11 35 (0.44%) Aladdin
11 35 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
12 31 (0.39%) SAP CO
13 29 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
14 27 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
15 24 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
16 23 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
17 21 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
18 19 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
18 19 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,257 (15.94%) Azure
2 908 (11.52%) AWS
3 554 (7.03%) Power Platform
4 392 (4.97%) GCP
5 274 (3.48%) SaaS
6 269 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 258 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
8 210 (2.66%) GitHub
9 192 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 152 (1.93%) Snowflake
11 147 (1.86%) Entra ID
12 128 (1.62%) Serverless
13 103 (1.31%) Power Automate
14 100 (1.27%) Amazon S3
15 97 (1.23%) OCI
16 89 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
17 85 (1.08%) OpenShift
18 80 (1.01%) dbt
19 78 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
19 78 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 147 (1.86%) Firewall
2 118 (1.50%) Network Security
3 67 (0.85%) DNS
4 66 (0.84%) VPN
5 56 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 55 (0.70%) WAN
7 37 (0.47%) BGP
8 31 (0.39%) HTTP
8 31 (0.39%) LAN
9 29 (0.37%) SSL
10 28 (0.36%) DHCP
11 26 (0.33%) OSPF
12 24 (0.30%) MPLS
12 24 (0.30%) Multicast
13 21 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
13 21 (0.27%) SD-WAN
14 19 (0.24%) VSAN
15 18 (0.23%) VLAN
16 16 (0.20%) DMZ
16 16 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 472 (5.99%) Power BI
2 219 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 211 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
4 151 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 141 (1.79%) Metadata
6 134 (1.70%) Relational Database
7 124 (1.57%) Tableau
8 113 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 87 (1.10%) NoSQL
10 71 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
11 67 (0.85%) Big Data
12 65 (0.82%) Oracle Database
13 55 (0.70%) BigQuery
14 45 (0.57%) MongoDB
15 44 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 41 (0.52%) Power Query
16 41 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
17 40 (0.51%) Delta Lake
18 39 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
19 33 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 596 (7.56%) JIRA
2 186 (2.36%) Git
3 143 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 90 (1.14%) GitLab
5 49 (0.62%) JUnit
6 46 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 35 (0.44%) Selenium
8 28 (0.36%) Postman
9 27 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 25 (0.32%) SonarQube
11 24 (0.30%) MLflow
11 24 (0.30%) Visual Studio
12 19 (0.24%) REST Assured
13 17 (0.22%) ERwin
13 17 (0.22%) Maven
13 17 (0.22%) Zephyr
14 15 (0.19%) TeamCity
15 14 (0.18%) Bitbucket
15 14 (0.18%) Hudson
16 11 (0.14%) Mockito
General
1 2,297 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 1,471 (18.66%) Banking
3 1,038 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 445 (5.64%) Public Sector
5 330 (4.19%) Legal
6 318 (4.03%) Financial Institution
7 297 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 283 (3.59%) Front Office
9 260 (3.30%) Retail
10 239 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
11 199 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
12 185 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
13 139 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 135 (1.71%) Manufacturing
15 130 (1.65%) Law
15 130 (1.65%) Local Government
16 129 (1.64%) Marketing
17 122 (1.55%) General Ledger
18 113 (1.43%) Billing
19 112 (1.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,170 (14.84%) Analyst
2 890 (11.29%) Senior
3 827 (10.49%) Lead
4 800 (10.15%) Developer
5 732 (9.28%) Architect
6 625 (7.93%) Project Manager
7 608 (7.71%) Business Analyst
8 507 (6.43%) Consultant
9 305 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
10 271 (3.44%) Data Engineer
11 208 (2.64%) Senior Manager
12 189 (2.40%) Financial Analyst
13 166 (2.11%) Data Analyst
14 162 (2.05%) Accountant
15 159 (2.02%) Finance Manager
16 156 (1.98%) Programme Manager
17 151 (1.92%) Software Engineer
18 150 (1.90%) Senior Developer
19 145 (1.84%) Java Developer
20 139 (1.76%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (3.01%) .NET
2 235 (2.98%) REST
3 225 (2.85%) Kafka
4 214 (2.71%) React
5 175 (2.22%) Middleware
5 175 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
6 137 (1.74%) Spring
6 137 (1.74%) Spring Boot
7 121 (1.53%) RESTful
8 97 (1.23%) Node.js
8 97 (1.23%) PySpark
9 89 (1.13%) AngularJS
10 88 (1.12%) Redux
11 74 (0.94%) JSON
12 71 (0.90%) OAuth
13 68 (0.86%) XML
14 64 (0.81%) CSS
15 60 (0.76%) HTML
16 58 (0.74%) Pandas
17 55 (0.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 356 (4.52%) Onboarding
2 336 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 319 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 222 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 189 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 164 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 149 (1.89%) Derivative
8 145 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 142 (1.80%) Fixed Income
10 140 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 135 (1.71%) Data Centre
12 132 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
13 108 (1.37%) Equities
14 98 (1.24%) Virtual Team
15 94 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
15 94 (1.19%) Public Cloud
16 92 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
17 82 (1.04%) AI Agents
18 81 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
19 73 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 274 (3.48%) Windows
2 248 (3.15%) Linux
3 130 (1.65%) Unix
4 64 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 41 (0.52%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.46%) Solaris
7 30 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.33%) Android
10 25 (0.32%) zOS
11 18 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.20%) AIX
13 7 (0.089%) VMS
13 7 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.076%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.051%) HPUX
15 4 (0.051%) MVS
15 4 (0.051%) SUSE
16 3 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,639 (20.79%) Agile
2 1,627 (20.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 1,107 (14.04%) Migration
4 1,028 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 884 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 859 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 843 (10.69%) DevOps
8 812 (10.30%) CI/CD
9 791 (10.03%) ERP
10 787 (9.98%) AI
11 768 (9.74%) Analytics
12 717 (9.09%) Project Management
13 678 (8.60%) Decision-Making
14 660 (8.37%) Data Modelling
15 648 (8.22%) Roadmaps
16 642 (8.14%) Validation
17 617 (7.83%) Business Intelligence
18 597 (7.57%) User Acceptance Testing
19 566 (7.18%) Change Management
20 518 (6.57%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,116 (14.16%) SQL
2 969 (12.29%) Python
3 536 (6.80%) Java
4 341 (4.33%) C#
5 223 (2.83%) JavaScript
6 208 (2.64%) TypeScript
7 173 (2.19%) PowerShell
8 88 (1.12%) C++
9 72 (0.91%) Bash
10 68 (0.86%) Go
10 68 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 61 (0.77%) T-SQL
12 54 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 50 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 43 (0.55%) Scala
15 38 (0.48%) VBA
16 27 (0.34%) Bicep
16 27 (0.34%) Rust
17 26 (0.33%) Apex Code
17 26 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 667 (8.46%) Degree
2 620 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 441 (5.59%) SC Cleared
4 206 (2.61%) ACCA
5 201 (2.55%) PMP
6 185 (2.35%) CIMA
7 169 (2.14%) PMI Certification
8 139 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 130 (1.65%) CISSP
10 126 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 79 (1.00%) Master's Degree
12 78 (0.99%) CISM
13 75 (0.95%) DV Cleared
14 69 (0.88%) Azure Certification
15 56 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
16 41 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
17 40 (0.51%) AWS Certification
18 35 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 30 (0.38%) DBS Check
19 30 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 477 (6.05%) Data Quality
2 357 (4.53%) QA
3 295 (3.74%) PMO
4 275 (3.49%) GDPR
5 156 (1.98%) NIST
6 132 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 108 (1.37%) IFRS
8 95 (1.20%) SLA
9 88 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 83 (1.05%) GRC
11 71 (0.90%) Accessibility
12 63 (0.80%) PCI DSS
13 56 (0.71%) GAAP
14 53 (0.67%) ISO 20022
15 35 (0.44%) NCSC
16 34 (0.43%) PSD2
17 33 (0.42%) SEPA
18 29 (0.37%) IFRS 17
19 26 (0.33%) SOC 2
20 25 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 265 (3.36%) Docker
2 154 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 52 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.34%) vSphere
5 25 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.13%) NFS
11 9 (0.11%) RACF
12 6 (0.076%) GPFS
12 6 (0.076%) KVM
13 5 (0.063%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.038%) GridGain
14 3 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.038%) SRDF
15 2 (0.025%) ACF2
15 2 (0.025%) HDFS
15 2 (0.025%) IAG
Systems Management
1 365 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 228 (2.89%) Terraform
3 120 (1.52%) Ansible
4 79 (1.00%) Grafana
5 68 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 64 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 46 (0.58%) SCCM
8 34 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.25%) Control-M
10 18 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.22%) vRealize
12 15 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.19%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.18%) Nessus
14 13 (0.16%) AirWatch
15 12 (0.15%) Argo
15 12 (0.15%) Puppet
16 11 (0.14%) CASB
17 9 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
17 9 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,022 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 653 (8.28%) Oracle
3 625 (7.93%) SAP
4 273 (3.46%) ServiceNow
5 233 (2.96%) Databricks
6 188 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 179 (2.27%) Google
8 113 (1.43%) Workday
9 110 (1.40%) Splunk
10 104 (1.32%) VMware
11 94 (1.19%) Cisco
12 83 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 79 (1.00%) IBM
14 63 (0.80%) Citrix
15 56 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 53 (0.67%) Sage
17 52 (0.66%) Ariba
18 51 (0.65%) Bloomberg
19 48 (0.61%) Murex
20 46 (0.58%) IFS